Black Wedding

The night was stormy,
The sky, it was black.
The silence was deafening,
And there was no turning back.

The beauty, of the forest,
Oh so dark.
I ran passed 'our' tree,
Still evident is our mark.

Sunrise was to come,
An event we still dread.
Hopefully by dawn,
We'd both be happily dead.

I walked in the mausoleum,
My mascara running down my cheek.
My legs didn't want to carry me -
I felt so weak.

But once I looked up
To see your face,
All I wanted
Was to feel your embrace.

I was handed a bouquet
Of wilting black roses dipped in blood.
They were the only type of flowers
That I have ever loved.

Our guests of living dead,
Stood as I walked down the aisle.
Their bones poked out of their skin,
A sight so vile.

There were vampires and werewolves,
Ghosts and zombies.
All were unliving,
All were deceased.

I took my place beside you,
You lifted my black veil.
This was my dream wedding,
Every single detail.

We took each others hands,
Standing in front of the priest.
In a couple of seconds or so,
Our passion would be unleashed.

Turning to each other
We started our vows.
We spoke of our feelings,
And the emotions it aroused.

We didn't do the traditional,
We wrote our own vows instead.
They were words from our hearts,
This is what we said:

"I love your skin,
Oh so white.
And I love your touch
Cold as ice."

"I worship your lips
Once red as wine.
I love the way your eyes
No longer shine."

"I love every single tear
You cry.
I love that for me,
You would die."

"We've been slaves to this love
From the moment we touched.
It was your hand from the start,
That I have clutched."

"I taste death
In every kiss we share.
And this night
Is the last we have to bare."

"Without you
Is how I disappear.
I love you so truly,
So passionately, my dear."

"Is it so hard to believe our hearts
Are made to be broken by love?
It's a sensation we enjoy
And we never get enough."

"Your breath on my skin
Has the scent of the end.
The only way you can love me
Is to hurt me again and again."

"Your love
Is a razor blade kiss.
Sweet is the taste
Of your lips."

With our vows said and done,
In glee, I hissed.
My vows were written in blood,
Cut into my wrist.

This was the suicide of love
And to it we drank.
Our goblets, filled with blood,
Against one another, in a toast, they clanked.

"A toast to the end of our lives together,"
You said as, in our drink, we immersed.
I sipped it up quickly
With a vampire's thirst.

We shared a kiss -
One so divine.
"A drop of your blood,
Tastes like wine."

This was our night
Filled with deadly lust.
Our love was glowing,
We were falling out of trust.

Outside in the forest of suicide,
The skies began to rain.
We smiled as the tears of gods fell,
Laughing at their pain.

The wind howled viciously
In the dead of the night,
As if, our vows,
It was trying to recite.

"I'll love you until our deaths
Do us part.
And I will always
Hold onto your heart."

"This world is not for us
And you know it as well as I do.
In life or death, Baby,
I will always love you."

"Myself, for your love,
I am killing,
This is a passionate sin,
The way I'm feeling."

"You're my haven -
I breathe my last breath.
Baby,
Please join me in death."

The undertaker priest called on the ring bearers
To come forward.
The were carrying our bloody hearts
Wrapped up in thorns.

"Wont you let it rain?"
The priest shouted to the sky.
"Join these two in unholy union,
As the gods they defy."

A lightening strike cracked
As if the gods were loathing.
It streaked across the sky,
The thunder moaning.

The ceremony was
Sealed with a kiss of death.
And as we walked away
The Reaper played our song of death.

"Together we'll live in death,"
You said as we entered the crypt.
It was the end of our black wedding,
The end of our script.

As we climbed into the coffin together,
And you closed the lid,
Our lives flashed before me,
I thought of all we did.

And I smiled at the thought
Of never growing old.
You leaned over and whispered,
"My love, you're so cold."

13 March 2007